Scientists who have accepted an invitation to contribute (since early 2006)

For a very preliminary version of the day-by-day programme click here

Nenad Ban, Zurich;
Wolfgang Baumeister, Munich;
Terese Bergfors, Uppsala;
Warren DeLano;
David Eisenberg, UCLA, CA;
Paul Emsley, York;
Eran Hodis, Rehovot;
Carola Hunte, Leeds;
Louise N. Johnson, Oxford;
Yvonne Jones, Oxford;
Werner Kuhlbrandt, Frankfurt;
Lars Liljas, Uppsala;
Joao Morais-Cabral, Porto;
Garib Murshudov, York;
Anastassis (Tassos) Perrakis, Amsterdam;
Helen Saibil, London;
Elisabeth Sauer-Eriksson, Umea;
Thomas Steitz, New Haven, CT;
Robert Stroud, UCSF, CA;
David Stuart, Oxford;
Joel Sussman, Rehovot;
Clemens Vonrhein, Cambridge;
Dmitry Svergun, Hamburg;
Ada Yonath, Rehovot;
additional speakers are being asked and some others will be chosen according to exciting and innovative results coming up in the literature.

Topics.
Evolving methods; Robotics for protein expression, purification, structure determination and imaging;
CryoEM, single particle analysis and tomography;
Computer modelling bringing together results of individual molecules,
assemblies and cells; RNA and DNA replication and synthesis;
Progress in structural genomics;
Multicomponent machines involved in protein biosynthesis and processing;
Membrane proteins, pores and transporters;
Transient multiprotein systems involving growth factor receptors, signal transducing assemblies and nucleic acid-protein complexes;
Amyloid structure;
Viruses and virulence factors;
Slot open to future hot topics